DoD Opens Cyber Policy Office As reported earlier, the planned opening of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy officially happened on March 20th. Ashley Manning will manage it until the Senate confirms someone else. President Biden announced that his nominee will be Michael Sulmeyer. Whether the Senate confirms him or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What if you could better your competitor’s returns by 372%? Would that make the pain of improving your cybersecurity practices worthwhile? A study by Bitsight and Diligent says that is possible. The study analyzed data from 4,000 companies worldwide and found two interesting statistics. Insurance companies are looking to find actuarial data that helps them […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you are a defense contractor – prime, sub or vendor to one of these and you were hoping that CMMC was going to go away, I don’t think that is going to happen – at least not on this president’s watch. Even if the party in power changes in January, I don’t much will […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks Either Mozilla didn’t run much of a background check or Onerep’s CEO is great at hiding his other businesses. Mozilla hired him to provide identity protection services, but it turns out that he runs dozens of sites that provide dirt on people. Not exactly compatible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Like Everyone Else, Reddit Plans to Sell User Content to AI Model Devs Seeing dollar signs in their future, Reddit decided to “license” their user created content to AI developers to train their models. The FTC is investigating in light of Reddit’s planned IPO. Reddit says it isn’t breaking the law to sell their user’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you are a defense contractor, then over the next few years you will likely have to be compliant and maybe certified for CMMC, either at level one or level two. Level one has about 17 controls and 59 assessment objectives; level two has 110 controls and about 315 assessment objectives. Assessment objectives are the […]
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